Manuscript editing

One-to-One Developmental Tutorials £150We will critique a 2,000 word extract and a synopsis and provide phone or Skype feedback plus written notes. A one hour face to face consultation/feedback session is an additional £50.00. Ideal for getting your project on track and assessing its potential.

Our Deep Edit Service provides full spelling, punctuation and grammar corrections, a complete edit including minor rewrites and suggestions for development and a one hour one-to-one meeting at additional cost.

Fee Structure
Every manuscript is different and some require more work than others. The prices below are therefore a guide only, and could vary.

Short Story
Up to 2,500 words £75
Each additional 1,000 words £25

Children’s Picture Books and Early Readers

Our specialist Simona Sideri will critique children’s books of up to 1000 words for £100.00 with written notes and phone/Skype feedback. A one hour face to face consultation is an additional £50.00. N.B. Children’s books have many additional factors including illustrations to take into account.

Novel, non-fiction, autobiography
Editing a novel is a big time commitment for our tutors and also needs the writer to feel comfortable and confident with the level of editing and quality of feedback. We ask writers to pay an initial £50.00 consultation fee and submit a synopsis and extract of no more than 2000 words in total. We will return your work edited/annotated and have a telephone/Skype conversation so that both the editor and writer can decide if they can work together. It will also enable us to set the fee depending on how much input is required and how the writer wants to receive feedback. As a very rough guide 40,000 words will cost between £350 – 550 with every additional 10,000 costing £100 – 125.00. One hour face to face consultation £50.00. Second-read discount of 20%

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